Global energy minimization by rotational energy embedding

Given a sufficiently good empirical potential function for the internal energy of molecules, prediction of the preferred conformations is nearly impossible for large molecules because of the enormous number of local energy minima. Energy embedding has been a promising method for locating extremely good local minima, if not always the global minimum. The algorithm starts by locating a very good local minimum when the molecule is in a high-dimensional Euclidean space, and then it gradually projects down to three dimensions while allowing the molecule to relax its energy throughout the process. Now we present a variation on the method, called rotational energy embedding, where the descent into three dimensions is carried out by a sequence of internal rotations that are the multidimensional generalization of varying torsion angles in three dimensions. The new method avoids certain kinds of difficulties experienced by ordinary energy embedding and enables us to locate conformations very near the native for avian pancreatic polypeptide and apamin, given only their amino acid sequences and a suitable potential function.

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